Dis
loc · Latin script
Meaning: uncertain but attested stem; perhaps related to got
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: INSEE, 1991
Dis is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
- PKPakistan
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 11 (measured from records)
no count published
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)uncertain but attested stem; perhaps related to got. filu-deisei 'cleverness'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | — | 487K | Dis | 11 |
| PK Pakistan | — | 1 | Dis | 3 |
| US United States | — | 90K | — | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 6.1K | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | 5.1K | — | 2 |
| FR France | — | 4.8K | — | — |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Dis is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, uncertain stem noted by the author; later rejected as explanatory stem
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Afrikaans, contraction of dit is (this's, that's, it's)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, second-person singular present indicative of dicir
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Welsh, die (polyhedron used in games of chance)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In nrm, first-person singular preterite of dithe
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 487K | #49 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 146 | #302 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 60 | #4,199 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 29 | #60,829 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 15 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 13 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 13 | #4,577 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 12 | — |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 12 | #21,874 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1981 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1901 | 11 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 10 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Dis come from?
- uncertain but attested stem; perhaps related to got. filu-deisei 'cleverness'. Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- What does the name Dis mean?
- Recorded meaning: uncertain but attested stem; perhaps related to got.
- In which country does Dis have the most bearers?
- Dis is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled dis.
What do you want to know about Dis?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/disThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.